Essential Skills for Workplace Success addresses all students’ ultimate goal - employment.  Students learn to learn and work to improve skills needed to succeed in further education, job training, and employment.  Students enroll in a communication and/or a math class and engage in directed lab activities that include computer-assisted instruction.

Instructors guide students to understand how academics relate to their career choices.  Activities including field trips, special speakers, and workshops help students apply their knowledge to real-life situations such as prepare personal data for resumes, practice oral communication and listening skills for job readiness and interviews, and use test-taking strategies for employment exams.

Each week, students attend five hours of class instruction and three hours of directed lab for each subject area. Students' schedules are determined by instructors' assessment of their needs. ES-Communication also accommodates ESL students, progressively articulating them into the mainstream communication class.

Whether students need a basic review or if English is not their Native language, this Essential Skills program can help in their transition.  Students may re-register or extend their enrollment if they require further training.

Program not under DOE/COP contract

For early withdrawal, refer to Refund Section.
Student enrolling for a second term of Essential Skills may need to purchase new books.

*Student/Sponsoring agency may provide its own insurance coverage (refer to Admission Requirement Section)